Mount Marsabit

Mount Marsabit
Satellite image of Marsabit
Highest point
Elevation1,707 m (5,600 ft)
Coordinates2°19′N 37°58′E / 2.317°N 37.967°E / 2.317; 37.967
Geography
Map
LocationEastern Province, Kenya
Geology
Mountain typeshield volcano
Last eruptionunknown

Marsabit is a 6300 km2 basaltic shield volcano in Kenya, located 170 km east of the center of the East African Rift, in Marsabit County near the town of Marsabit. This was primarily built during the Miocene, but some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions have occurred more recently. At least two of the maars host crater lakes.

The volcano is covered by dense forest. Marsabit National Park is in the area.

It was here, near a body of water they dubbed Lake Paradise, that American explorers Martin and Osa Johnson spent time in the 1920s living and making wildlife documentaries.[1]

On 10 April 2006, a Harbin Y-12 II owned and operated by the Kenyan Air Force crashed in Mount Marsabit killing 14 of the 17 occupants onboard.[2]

See also

References

"Marsabit". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.

  1. ^ "About Martin and Osa Johnson". Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  2. ^ "Accident Harbin Y-12-II 132, Monday 10 April 2006". asn.flightsafety.org. Retrieved 2024-11-13.


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